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	Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq

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9-20-2008 8:15 AM

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                        WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 
Satellite images taken at night show 
heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of <SPAN id="lw_1221864295_0" class="yshortcuts">Baghdad</SPAN> began emptying 
before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic 
cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a 
report published on Friday.                        
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 The images support the view of international refugee 
organizations and Iraq experts that a major population shift 
was a key factor in the decline in <SPAN id="lw_1221864295_1" class="yshortcuts">sectarian violence</SPAN>, 
particularly in the Iraqi capital, the epicenter of the 
bloodletting in which hundreds of thousands were killed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc_2"><P>
 Minority Sunni Arabs were driven out of many neighborhoods 
by Shi'ite militants enraged by the bombing of the Samarra 
mosque in February 2006. The bombing, blamed on the Sunni 
militant group al Qaeda, sparked a wave of sectarian violence.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc_2">"By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of 
conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they 
turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John 
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